Ideal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Ideal	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Ideal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ideal adj conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal constituting or existing only in the form of an idea or mental image or conception; "a poem or essay may be typical of its period in idea or ideal content" of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas Synonym(s): ideal, idealistic n the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal Synonym(s): ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ideal \Ide"al\, a. [L. idealis: cf. F. id[82]al.] 1. Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal* knowledge. 2. Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty. --Byron. There will always be a wide interval between practical and ideal excellence. --Rambler. 3. Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal. [bd]Planning ideal common wealth.[b8] --Southey. 4. Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy. 5. (Math.) Imaginary. Syn: Intellectual; mental; visionary; fanciful; imaginary; unreal; impracticable; utopian.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ideal \Ide"al\, n. A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc. The ideal* is to be attained by selecting and assembling in one whole the beauties and perfections which are usually seen in different individuals, excluding everything defective or unseemly, so as to form a type or model of the species. Thus, the Apollo Belvedere is the ideal of the beauty and proportion of the human frame. --Fleming. {Beau ideal}. See {Beau ideal}.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Ideal, GA (city, FIPS 40812) Location: 32.37277 N, 84.18891 W Population (1990): 554 (176 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31041 Ideal, SD Zip code(s): 57541
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
IDEAL 1. Ideal DEductive Applicative Language. A language by Pier Bosco and Elio Giovannetti combining {Miranda} and {Prolog}. Function definitions can have a {guard} condition (introduced by ":-") which is a conjunction of equalities between arbitrary terms, including functions. These guards are solved by normal {Prolog} {resolution} and {unification}. It was originally compiled into {C-Prolog} but was eventually to be compiled to {K-leaf}. 2. A numerical {constraint} language written by Van Wyk of {Stanford} in 1980 for {typesetting} graphics in documents. It was inspired partly by {Metafont} and is distributed as part of {Troff}. ["A High-Level Language for Specifying Pictures", C.J. Van Wyk, ACM Trans Graphics 1(2):163-182 (Apr 1982)]. (1994-12-15)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
ideal In {domain theory}, a non-empty, {downward closed} subset which is also closed under binary {least upper bounds}. I.e. anything less than an element is also an element and the least upper bound of any two elements is also an element. (1997-09-26)